Death threats for Sinn Féin councillor

A Sinn Féin councillor in the North has received death threats.

Billy Leonard, from Coleraine, Co Antrim, said he and his family had taken threatening phone calls claiming a bomb had been left under his car.

“He has said that I would be dead in 24 hours, when other members of my family answered the phone he has said the Councillor Billy Leonard would be dead,” he said.

The politician has not linked the calls to any organised paramilitary group but he is the second nationalist public representative to be targeted in recent days.

SDLP MLA John Dallat was warned of the danger from loyalists last week.